SPORT IN THE TEKKES : IBEX 103 



performance, for when we arrived, the four were 

 nowhere to be seen ; we spent some time looking 

 for them, but without success. I found the fresh 

 remains of a small buck, which had been killed and 

 nearly all eaten by a leopard ; so fresh was it that 

 the leopard and not the wind may have been 

 accountable for the disappearance of the four. We 

 then went after another herd, but for some reason 

 or another, possibly the leopard again, they were 

 very restless, and after moving two or three times 

 finally went off into the higher rocks, where we did 

 not think it worth while to follow them. 



The morning was now getting on, but Durji was 

 not to be beaten, and proposed that he and I should 

 go on along the higher ground, while the other man 

 went down to take the ponies on to a place which 

 we pointed out to him. I foresaw a hard day in 

 front, but it would never have done for me to yield 

 in keenness to Durji, so I agreed. We did two or 

 three miles of very bad walking, including a climb 

 in and out of a deep side- valley, which was a mass 

 of fallen rocks, before seeing anything, and then 

 saw a large herd at the top of the grass slopes a 

 good bit further on. They were in a very stalkable 

 place, though we had to go further up the hill to get 

 the cover of the rocky ground there, as the grass 

 was too open ; but no matter, there they were, 

 though, unfortunately, when we got near to where 

 we had seen them, it was a case of there they were 



